Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and Educational Interests of the State of WisconsinDepartment of Public Instruction, 1860 - Education |
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... furnished 6,710 . Fourteen counties report no libraries , and others only about one fourth as many as there are districts . Racine county reports more than twice as many books as any other county . The fact that the Racine city library ...
... furnished 6,710 . Fourteen counties report no libraries , and others only about one fourth as many as there are districts . Racine county reports more than twice as many books as any other county . The fact that the Racine city library ...
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... furnish a better average than the whole county would bear , but this is not the case with the counties with which I am personally acquainted . In cases where no average is made the sum total is only for the number of towns reported ...
... furnish a better average than the whole county would bear , but this is not the case with the counties with which I am personally acquainted . In cases where no average is made the sum total is only for the number of towns reported ...
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... furnished for pupils in the school houses reported . By the same calculation as before and making allowance for the ... furnish ouly 6 3-20 per cent . each . The large share of very young pupils will account , in part , for the small per ...
... furnished for pupils in the school houses reported . By the same calculation as before and making allowance for the ... furnish ouly 6 3-20 per cent . each . The large share of very young pupils will account , in part , for the small per ...
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... furnishing com- pensation that will warrant a suspension of regular business . A few are found able and willing to make the sacrifice , but these are but rare exceptions . It is thus made subordinate to all other work , receiving as ...
... furnishing com- pensation that will warrant a suspension of regular business . A few are found able and willing to make the sacrifice , but these are but rare exceptions . It is thus made subordinate to all other work , receiving as ...
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... furnish this protection . 7. Through county examiners , who should be brought into close correspondence with the State Superintendent , uni- formity of examination may be attained throughout the whole State . Such are the theoretical ...
... furnish this protection . 7. Through county examiners , who should be brought into close correspondence with the State Superintendent , uni- formity of examination may be attained throughout the whole State . Such are the theoretical ...
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age have attended Amount Library Fines Amount of Money amount of Wages Amount raised attended School Average amount braries Caledonia cent Chambers Island Children over 20 City Clark Cornell Counties and Towns County Superintendent Diamond Bluff Dist Districts not reported Eau Claire Fayette Female Children Fond du Lac Grove Highest valuation III.-continued lands Lowest valuation M'Guffey M'Guffey Ray Male Teachers Manitowoc Manitowoc Rapids Marcellon McNally ment Mineral Point Mitchell Money raised Money received Monteith month paid Names of Counties Number of Children Number of Female Number of Male number of months Number of School Number Private Packwaukee paid to Male Patch Grove Pinneo Prairie pupils attending raised by tax Ray Mitchell residing in Town Sanders School Districts School House Sites section lands Sheboygan Sheboygan Falls siding in Town TABLE taught tax and expended Thom'sn Total valuation Town Superintendents valuation of School Volumes loaned Wages per month Waterloo Village Watertown City
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Page 71 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Page 61 - ... the interest of which, and all other revenues derived from the school lands, shall be exclusively applied to the following objects, to-wit: 1. To the support and maintenance of common schools, in each school district, and the purchase of suitable libraries and apparatus therefor.
Page 18 - State, and shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of December next after his election.
Page 19 - ... take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this state...
Page 13 - ... paid as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...
Page 63 - Franklin, and he will think differently and act differently all the days of his remaining life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and from that day, new heavens will bend over their heads, and a new earth will spread out beneath their feet. A mind accustomed to go rejoicing over the splendid regions of the material universe, or to luxuriate in the richer worlds of thought, can never afterwards read like a wooden machine,...
Page 59 - What quenchless fires of passion have been kindled within the bosoms of the young of both sexes by these exposures ; fires that have raged to the consuming of personal happiness, to the prevention of scholastic improvement, and to .the destruction of personal character ? Again, what disgust has been created in both sexes by not having the appropriate retirements which nature imperiously demands?
Page 71 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 20 - Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha...
Page 65 - Library feature of this system, as far as heard from, has been exceedingly happy, disappointing the predictions of its enemies, and the fears of its timid friends, and even transcending the most sanguine expectations of its more ardent advocates. The interest awakened by its use, and the estimation in which it is held by adults as well as youth, confirm the wisdom that gave it a township character rather than a district mission.